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21 Equal Divisions of the Tritave


Degrees
Cents
Approximate Ratio
0
0
1/1
1
90.569
21/20, 135/128
2
181.139
10/9
3
271.708
7/6
4
362.277
16/13
5
452.846
13/10
6
543.416
15/11, 11/8
7
633.985
13/9
8
724.554
35/23
9
815.124
8/5
10
905.693
27/16
11
996.262
16/9
12
1086.831
15/8
13
1177.401
69/35
14
1267.970
27/13
15
1358.539
11/5 (11/10 plus an octave), 24/11 (12/11 plus an octave)
16
1449.109
30/13 (15/13 plus an octave)
17
1539.678
39/16
18
1630.247
18/7 (9/7 plus an octave)
19
1720.816
27/10
20
1811.386
20/7, 128/45
21
1901.955
3/1


21edt contains 6 intervals from 7edt and 2 intervals from 3edt, meaning that it introduces 12 new intervals not available in lower edt's. These new intervals allow for construction of strange chords like 9:10:13:16:22:27:30...

21edt contains a 7L7s MOS similar to Whitewood, which I call Ivory. It has a period of 1/7 of the tritave and the generator is one step. The major scale is LsLsLsLsLsLsLs, and the minor scale is sLsLsLsLsLsLsL.


21edt also contains a 4L5s MOS similar to BP, with a 4:1 ratio of large to small; quite exaggerated from the optimal 2:1. Although the 7/3 is a little off, the 4L+5s BP scale is pretty. However, one of the star scales in 21edt is the 3L+6s (ssLssLssL and modes thereof) which is very harmonically rich, the cornerstone of which is the approximate 9:13:19 chord (which is just the 3edt essentially tempered chord).

Not the best approximations but all within 20 cents: it has 5th (+20c), 7th(-16c), 10th (+2c), 11th (+15c), 13th (-3c), 17th (-14c), 23rd (+6 c), and 37th (-2c) harmonics. For a lower division of the tritave that's quite a constellation! The chord is a little out of tune but it works, you can really sink into it.